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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Kabe claim was too quiet not to jump?
(a) His dreams.
(b) His neighborhood.
(c) His friend's death.
(d) His life.

2. Instead of outsmarting the State, what did Biermann do that evoked criticism from his peers?
(a) Challenge it.
(b) Respect it.
(c) Hide from it.
(d) Accept it.

3. What do the masked people use to break the glass of storefronts near the Kurfürstendamm?
(a) Rifles.
(b) Stones.
(c) Canes.
(d) Books.

4. What did the Narrator and Pommerer argue about the Commission on Order and Security report?
(a) Whether it was sympathetic to their cause.
(b) Whether it was the same as that under Nazism.
(c) Whether it symbolized the power of their government.
(d) Whether it mandated suspicious activity.

5. Where does the Narrator meet his friend from East Berlin to play pinball?
(a) Charlie's.
(b) Robert's.
(c) Gerhard's.
(d) Schlater's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Gartenschläger arrested for stealing?

2. Who is the stranger that comes to talk to Pommerer in the bar and buys a round of drinks?

3. Which is NOT an escape method used by people trying to jump the Wall in the early 1960s?

4. Where are strikes occurring that the Narrator watches on television with Pommerer?

5. What is being torn down in the Narrator's neighborhood via urban renovation?

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